<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue> <div class=Section1> Snit has it right.  The problem with everything Sowell says is the same as what all mainstream <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> thinkers say:  They use “culture” as a Trojan Horse for preserving and importing the old elitist saws about the biological superiority of those who have “made it.”  As writers like George Fredrickson and Stephen Steinberg explain, there is very little difference between saying somebody is genetically inferior and that somebody is hopeless mangled by “their” culture.  If culture is deep, unchangeable, and an emanation of racial groups rather than history and institutions, it’s merely old-school Social Darwinism in a slick new overcoat.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The way to attack this shit is to present the actual history after going after the conceptual sophomorism of its peddlers.  “Culture” schmulture!<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: lbo-talk-bounces@lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces@lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of joanna Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:59 AM To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</st1:PersonName> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Sowell on "black rednecks"<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> He's not really saying the South stinks. He's saying poor white trash stinks. As Chuck Grimes pointed out, he's not especially saying anything about the current administration, which is cut out of the same cloth and finds its constituency there. Basically it's another spin on the white-trash/nigger formula, which has been playing  in this country for a long time. Joanna Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: <o:p></o:p> <pre wrap="">Kelley:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>  <o:p></o:p></pre> <blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt' type=cite><pre wrap="">But no. Sowell pretends that it's all reducible to culture, going after<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>poor whites in the south is simply a way for him to legiiimate his shit<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>about blacks. In either case, he's a racist, through and through. His is a<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>cultural racism.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>    <o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote> <pre wrap=""><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>What is so racist in arguing that the South stinks? <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Wojtek<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>___________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>  <o:p></o:p></pre> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </div> </body> </html>